Militärische Lehren aus dem Ukraine-Krieg

[Schneemann]

Eine sehr alte, zwar in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten angesichts der westlichen High-Tech-Systeme in der Berichterstattung (zumindest bei uns) mehr und mehr in den Hintergrund gerückte, aber eigentlich doch nie so ganz verdrängte Kriegskunst scheint im Rahmen des Ukrainekrieges wieder hoffähig zu werden - das Schanzen und der Stellungsbau bzw. der Schützengraben.

Und die National Guard in den Staaten übt neuerdings damit auch recht fleißig...

Trench Warfare In Ukraine Casts Old School Army Training In Different Light

The Army’s trench warfare training may have seemed archaic in the past, but the war in Ukraine is serving as the latest reminder otherwise. [...]

Combat engineers from the Georgia Army National Guard recently built a trench line to help train new recruits. Though the U.S. Army uses trenches in training evolutions and exercises, at first glance doing so may look like a throwback to time gone by. Sadly, that is not the case. In fact, their significance can be viewed with chilling clarity given the very active use currently of fortifications like this by both sides of the conflict in Ukraine.

Pictures showing members of the Georgia Army National Guard's 177th Engineer Support Company (ESC) cutting the trench at Fort Moore have been circulating online in the past day. However, an official post on Facebook from the company's parent unit, the 878th Engineer Battalion, indicates that this happened in June. Georgia's Fort Moore, previously named Fort Benning, is one of five basic training hubs within the Army and is also home to the service's Infantry and Armor schools.

This particular trench was reportedly constructed to support so-called "First 100 Yards" training at Fort Moore. [...] It is perhaps not surprising that a trench is a part of the First 100 Yards. The name refers directly to troops leaving their trenches and beginning their advance across no-mans-land during World War I. [...] As the name of the First 100 Yards training program itself underscores, trenches remain heavily associated with World War I. This is something that popular media also continues to reinforce, including through films like 2019's 1917 and last year's new adaptation of the 1928 novel All Quiet on the Western Front. [...]

To this day, even relatively crude trenches can still provide some level of protection against direct and indirect fire, even from many modern artillery systems and other weapons. Clearing them can be extremely difficult and requires troops to engage in often especially brutal close-quarters combat.

Trenches have been obstacles to overcome or a way of protecting friendly forces, or both, in many major conflicts the U.S. military has been involved in since World War I. This includes Iraqi trench lines encountered in the First Gulf War and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, though in both instances they did little to slow down coalition forces.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/tr...rent-light

Ich muss dazu anmerken, dass ich das 2001 bei der Bundeswehr bei der Grundausbildung noch üben musste (ob das heute noch so ist, weiß ich leider nicht). Es war damals aber fester Teil der Ausbildung, selbsttätig (einzelne) Schützenlöcher und Stellungen für drei, vier Mann auszuheben. Und man darf das - wenn man kein schweres Gerät zugegen hat - nicht unterschätzen: Selbst auf einem Acker mit lockerer Erde (wobei hier der Schutz aber eher marginal ist) ist das schon eine sehr zähe und schweißtreibende Angelegenheit. Ist man an einem Waldrand, wo der Boden gesetzter und von Wurzeln durchzogen ist, ist das eine absolute Schinderei und man glaubt gar nicht, wie schwer es ist, da halbwegs ein Deckungsloch hinzubekommen...

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